Opposition MPs insist on release of Timoshenko

KIEV, February 21. /ITAR-TASS/. The opposition has proposed to adopt a law for protesters and ex-prime minister Yulia Timoshenko not to be prosecuted.

"We must vote today not for an amnesty law, but for non-prosecution (of protesters). We insist on release of Yulia Timoshenko," the leader of the Batkivshchyna party's members in the parliament, Arseny Yatsenyuk, said from the parliament rostrum.

The parliament meeting resumed on Friday after a brawl among deputies.